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140 posted on 01/02/2011 1:16:14 PM PST by Bobalu ( "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother." ..Moshe Dayan:)
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To: Bobalu

That brick. mansard roofed Second Empire style house on the next to the last row of photos appears to be out in the country. Somebody really should rescue it from collapsing, it’s too nice for such a fate. Heck, most of them are, it’s just sickening for an architecture and history buff such as myself.


144 posted on 01/02/2011 1:22:52 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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Never been to Detroit (and certainly don’t want to visit now). The city looks post-apocalyptic.


149 posted on 01/02/2011 1:30:35 PM PST by hcmama
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Photobucket I lived here in red house the early 60s. The '67 riots reached to within a mile of here. The only difference then and now is the tall oak is gone. The other houses were plain white then. This neighborhood has not only been well-tended, it's been improved.

Photobucket This is about 2 miles further out. In the mid-late 50s it was a brand-new development of cheaply-built cookie-cutter single-family homes, each with a sapling in the middle of the front yard, for a newly-prosperous middle class. I can't tell which one I lived in, and it might not even be in this picture. It's still not fancy, but these 50 - 60 year old houses are not falling apart.

What a contrast to nearby Detroit. *Something* made a huge difference.

161 posted on 01/02/2011 2:01:59 PM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Why are TSA exempt from their own searches?)
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